[Bungo Stray Dogs] With the Light and the Dust

(One)

Everyone at the Armed Detective Agency knows that if you're going out to dinner, it's best not to let Sakunosuke Oda decide where to go.

Because the reference he will make is curry besides curry and curry.

This man's hobby of curry is 'must eat three times a week', and has persisted for many years.

The one that suits his taste the most is the curry from a shop that he had acquaintance with before taking him in to join the detective agency.Although the number of adopted children gradually increased, the longhouse next to the foreign food store could not accommodate the number of children he adopted, which Akutagawa said was planning to form an army. He rented another house as the residence of this extended family, but he still often I will go to that foreign restaurant to eat curry.

Later, I don’t know when it started, Akutagawa, a junior from the detective agency, also came over a few times, and gradually became a regular visitor here.

On this day, Odasaku came to the store after work as usual and said to the boss, "It's the same."

"A super spicy curry, is the guy next to you too?" the shopkeeper wearing a yellow apron asked familiarly.

Akutagawa, who was wearing an off-white coat, nodded and sat down next to Oda Sakunosuke.He kept his head down, looked forward, raised his glass and took a sip of water.

"If you don't like spicy food, you can try the original flavor or the slightly spicy one?" Oda Sakunosuke noticed his movements and couldn't help persuading him.

To be honest, he can't quite understand why Akutagawa insists on ordering super spicy curry every time he is blushed by the heat.

"No, please don't underestimate me, I can calmly eat a plate of super spicy curry now." Akutagawa justified himself seriously and firmly, and after he finished speaking, he said to himself, "Just understand Oda-senpai If you love curry, you can know why Oda-senpai is strong'.

But what does this have to do with curry?

Oda Sakunosuke shook his head, and set his sights on the three plates of curry brought out by the boss.

Three were super spicy curries, two of which were from him and Akutagawa, and the other was given to the person across the bar by the boss.

After the remodeling of the doubled storefront, the counter that was originally the standard of an ordinary foreign restaurant has become a standard circular bar counter like a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. Looking from this direction, Oda Sakunosuke can only see the counter from the opposite table. After the guest's hair top.

He didn't pay much attention, and quietly ate the super spicy curry rice in front of him.

Akutagawa next to him also stared at the curry rice in front of him with a cold face for a while, then solemnly took a spoon and put it into his mouth.

"Wow...so spicy, so spicy!"

The voice was not from Akutagawa, but from the person across the bar.As soon as he made the sound, Oda Sakunosuke realized that it was a very familiar voice.

"Dazai?"

"Yo~ Odasaku..." Osamu Dazai straightened up, poked his head out from the opposite side to say hello, and fanned his mouth with his hands while talking vaguely, "It's really spicy beyond imagination, worse than destroying weapons. Horrible! What anti-human condiments are put in this curry!"

"The super spicy curry of the boss's house is twice as spicy as it was a few years ago." Oda Sakunosuke said.

Osamu Dazai let out a "Hey", the super hot aftertaste made the corners of his eyes reddened, tears flowed physiologically, and his tongue lost consciousness under the pain of the spicy.

At this moment, a hand reached out from behind the table and placed a glass of water with ice cubes in front of him.

Osamu Dazai hurriedly picked up the cup and drank half of it as if seeing a savior, and then took a sip in his mouth to relieve the spicy taste.

The person who handed out the water glass was also someone whom Oda Sakunosuke knew.

It is Beichenguang.

She seemed to be helping in the back kitchen, her hair was tied up high, and she was wearing a polka-dot apron that is always available in the store. She handed out the water glass and saw that Dazai looked better after drinking the water, so she took the water glass and gave it to him. He changed to a glass of room temperature, and his calm tone sounded like a reproach, "Why do you have to order super spicy if you can't eat spicy?"

"Because I didn't expect the spiciness to increase..." Dazai Osamu held the water glass in both hands, and because the corners of his eyes were still a little red, he looked rather pitiful.

Bei Chenguang didn't say anything else, turned around and walked into the kitchen, and after a while brought out another plate of curry that didn't look so spicy and replaced the one in front of Osamu Dazai.

"Just working here?" Oda Sakunosuke asked casually after swallowing a mouthful of curry rice.

"No, I came here today because Dazai suddenly wanted to eat the curry here." Bei Chenguang shook his head and explained, "There were a lot of people here before Odasaku and you guys came, I think the store manager is not too busy to come over Helped out in the kitchen."

"That's it."

Sakunosuke Oda didn't say anything after asking, and continued to eat curry quietly.

But Osamu Dazai won't just be quiet like this.

After he recovered, he sat next to Oda Sakunosuke with the less spicy curry that Bei Chenguang had given him, and didn't eat it. He just supported his chin and complained in a long tone, "It's really hard to find a job—— Odasaku, do you have any interesting job introductions? Or I think it would be good for you to be an editor!"

"Work? I remember you applied for a teacher at a junior high school in Kanagawa?"

Osamu Dazai blinked, and said in a relaxed tone, "Obviously, he was fired."

Oda Sakunosuke didn't ask him why he was fired, but after thinking about it, he said, "Then why don't you try screenwriting, director or actor? Maybe it will suit you."

"Odasaku, sometimes I really can't tell whether you are complimenting me or teasing me seriously." Dazai Osamu showed a solemn expression.

"It's literally." Oda Sakunosuke, who still couldn't complain, said something.

Akutagawa, who was sitting next to him and quietly finished the last mouthful of super spicy curry, looked up at them, then silently went to refill his glass of water.

At this moment, Oda Sakunosuke's phone rang.He glanced at the caller ID and answered the call.

'Is that Mr. Oda?I'm Yoichi and Shinya's homeroom teacher. ' said the person on the phone.

Yoichi and Shinya are a pair of twin orphans adopted by Oda Sakunosuke three years ago. They are now attending elementary school. They are the most mischievous and mischievous among the more than 30 children he adopted. I don't know what the call from their homeroom teacher is for at this time.

The first five children adopted by Odasaku have grown into eighteen or nineteen-year-old boys and girls.After leaving Hong Kong and Heilongjiang, he adopted several more one after another, and now the number of this big family has reached an astonishing thirty.It has to be said that it is a miracle that Oda Sakunosuke can raise so many children.

In addition, for some reason, the children adopted by Oda Sakunosuke are not afraid of Akutagawa at all, and they unanimously call him big brother. Ren Oda Saku explained several times that "Akutagawa is not my adopted child, but a descendant of the detective agency". Use, and I won't explain it later.

"Two children got into trouble, I have to go to their school." Oda Sakunosuke put down his phone and said to Dazai and Akutagawa.

"Go, let's go~ It's hard work, being the head of a big family." Osamu Dazai sighed with his face propped up.

(two)

"Huh? You asked me to come here just to play games?" The young man wearing a hat looked at the game controller stuffed into his hand, and suppressed the anger that popped up when he saw Dazai, looking at Bei Chenguang For the sake of the side, he didn't smash the handle on Dazai Osamu's face, "I'm very busy, mackerel bastard! Do you think everyone is as idle as you, staying at home all day and being raised by others!"

Bei Chenguang, who was raising Zai, took a look and said nothing.

The raised Dazai looked innocent, "I know, Hong Kong gangsters have been busy cleaning up their crimes recently, and Chuya must be busy as a cadre."

Saying this, the former Hong Kong black leader who was hard-core and abdicated was sitting cross-legged on a blanket with bare feet, wearing a homely light gray sweater, playing a game in his hand, and there were various fruit and nut plates on the table next to him. Nothing to do with leisure.

This is even more irritating!

Zhong Yuanzhong also dropped the game controller and turned angrily towards the door.

"If Chuya beats me in the game—" Dazai Osamu elongated his voice with a smile, "I have done a plan for Hong Kong gangsters to be laundered and landed for white, Dr. Mori should want it very much~"

Chuya Zhongya's footsteps stopped.

After the disappearance of the ability, Natsume Soseki rebuilt the three-point concept of Yokohama, and the original three-party organization made changes.The Armed Detective Agency has removed [armed], but it is still active as a private detective organization that solves people's problems; the Supernatural Secret Service Section has been rectified and banned, and finally only a special action team for special situations is left; and after Dazai jumped from the building Some of the port mafia led by Mori Ogai remained in the dark to deter Yokohama's gangsters, and some companies began to launder and go ashore to become legal businesses.

And in this process, if there is a plan written by the former leader of Hong Kong gangsters, Osamu Dazai, it is no exaggeration to say that Hong Kong gangsters can create a business empire comparable to the first-class chaebol within two years.

"...What is the bet this time?" Zhong Yuan asked cautiously.

Osamu Dazai snapped his fingers, and his smile gradually became more meaningful, "I heard that Hong Kong gangsters have recently acquired an entertainment company. I don't ask for anything else. If Chuya loses, just debut."

"Anyway, it's all for Hong Kong gangsters to make money, and you won't lose if you lose."

Central Plains also had a chill, stared at Dazai for a long time as if he was looking at an alien, and choked out, "You must be sick!"

"I'm bored, I must have some fun~"

Nakahara also lowered his eyes and frowned, weighing the pros and cons, and also had to pay attention to whether there was a hole dug by Osamu Dazai, but this guy was still urging, "Hurry up! The game is about to start!"

Finally, he gritted his teeth and sat down, picking up the game controller.

Osamu Dazai's plan must be fought for, and it's not certain who wins or loses!If this guy hadn't tampered with the game console, he wouldn't have lost to this guy!

The game of the competition is a racing game, and the handle of the game handle is also very good, it doesn't look like it has been tampered with.

Zhongyuan also started confidently.

The two racing cars drove out of the starting line at the same time, and he stared intently at the screen in front of him, holding the game controller and turning the direction neatly and handsomely.

After a pause... Osamu Dazai's car reached the finish line first.

"It's not only the height that hasn't changed since the age of 15, but also the skill of playing games~"

Osamu Dazai laughed unceremoniously.

"I'm just waiting for my favorite to make my debut. Come on, I've already thought up the cheering slogan for you, so I'll use [Dirty Sorrow, the pitch-black little man], how about~"

"Shut up!" Zhong Yuanzhong also pressed his hat, looked at the word [failure] that appeared on the screen, held his breath, stood up and strode out.

Followed behind him like a shadow is Osamu Dazai's elongated voice of "Don't~forget~got~go~out~dao~oh" with a tilde.

After walking a certain distance, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he was so angry that he slammed his fist on the tree trunk by the side of the road.

"Bastard mackerel!"

The thick trunk of the roadside tree swayed and fell down.

(three)

"amusement park?"

"It's a date."

Osamu Dazai shook his fingers, with two tickets between his fingers.It was the ticket for the most popular amusement park in Yokohama. As soon as I took it out, I knew it was premeditated.

Dating is nothing, but choosing an amusement park as a date place is really not something that Osamu Dazai would do... How should I put it, is this the so-called truth that children's innocence grows with age?

Bei Chenguang, whose thoughts diverged, stared at him for a long time, and even touched his forehead with his hands to make sure that there was nothing wrong with him, so he asked hesitantly, "Could it be Oda Saku's opinion?? "

"I guessed it, it really looks like the opinion he would put forward, right?" Dazai Osamu bent his eyes and laughed, "But this is a dating place that I have never tried before, maybe there will be surprises!"

Does unexpected joy refer to childlike innocence that pops up suddenly?

Thinking of this, Bei Chenguang looked at Osamu Dazai, who was wearing a very age-reducing white shirt and suit pants, who was enthusiastically mixing in the registered rides, and a smile appeared on his lips unconsciously.

She bought two ice creams from an ice cream shack that was very popular with children and walked towards him.

Because today is the replacement day after the National Day (if the holiday falls on Sunday, the first working day after the holiday will be taken as compensatory rest), the number of people in the amusement park is not much less than usual, and most of them are with children Parents or young couples who are still in school, the two of them don't seem to be out of harmony.

"That jumping machine looks like..."

"No, you don't want to." Bei Chenguang expressionlessly pulled his hand pointing at the jumping machine, and stuffed an ice cream into his hand.

Osamu Dazai choked, and muttered softly, "I haven't said anything yet..."

"Where to go first? Haunted house? Pirate ship?"

Bei Chenguang skipped his speech and looked down at the rides on the ticket he held in his hand.

Staring at the top of her hair, Osamu Dazai suddenly remembered the pair of cat ear headbands he bought just now, and reached into the bag to feel, and found a pink cat ear headband to put on her head.

She was obviously stunned for a moment, holding an ice cream in one hand, and raised the other hand to touch the top of her head.

"It's great!" Osamu Dazai held her hand and praised with his eyes shining slightly.

Bei Chenguang tilted his head, instead of touching the cat ear headband on his head, he stretched out his hand to Osamu Dazai and said, "Where is the other one?"

She is not a cute type of appearance, even with a pink cat ear headband, she looks more like a cold Norwegian cat, and her pale gold pupils add a bit of feline mystery.

Osamu Dazai handed Bei Chenguang another cat ear headband, seeing that she raised her hand to put it on her head, and lowered her head in cooperation to let her put it on. The soft black hair was paired with realistic snow-white cat ears.

After putting it on, Osamu Dazai raised his head and meowed at her with a smile.

"Meow~"

"Crack——"

Two girls who were playing and taking pictures nearby accidentally took this scene.

(four)

A certain bar in a dark alley, only the words 'Lupin' on the signboard and the portrait of a smoking person flickering dimly.

The bar is open at night, and the dark alley is especially quiet at this time, only the footsteps of Ango Sakaguchi echoing in the alley.

He slipped through the door of Lipin's bar and down the stairs leading to the basement.

The dark and dry stairs leading to the ground give the illusion of a time-traveling passage, and you can hear the faint music coming out of the store.

The bar was as cramped and silent as a badger's den.Counters, bars, chairs, bottles of various labels are displayed on the walls.Not a single clerk.

On the outermost and middle seats of the bar, Oda Sakunosuke and Dazai Osamu were already sitting there.

"Yo, Ango, first time meeting~" Osamu Dazai, who was lying on the bar counter and tapped the ice cubes in the glass with his fingers, lazily raised his hand and waved, and continued, "Long time no see."

An Wu pushed his glasses, walked to the seat reserved for him at the back, sat down, and ordered a glass of tomato juice.

"By the way, I heard that Oda has published a new novel? The name is... "Seamless Clothes"?" Osamu Dazai excitedly brought up a topic, "How did you come up with the idea of ​​using the name of the ability as the title of the novel? So funny!"

"Because I heard that in China across the sea, many people with supernatural powers have gone to write novels after their supernatural powers disappeared. They seem to be very popular there to write a novel with the name of the former supernatural power." Oda Sakunosuke answered truthfully, "That's what inspired me."

After hearing this, Osamu Dazai rubbed his chin thoughtfully.He didn't know what he was thinking, and after a while, he suddenly said:

"Okay—let's toast!"

Jumping thinking makes it hard to keep up.

At this moment, the scene of the other world he saw overlapped with the real scene now, and Ango Sakaguchi asked subconsciously, "Cheers for what?"

Dazai raised his cup, closed his eyes slightly and smiled.

"Reunited here for the three of us."

Ango Sakaguchi was silent for a while, and raised the glass in his hand.

Oda Sakunosuke on the other side did the same thing, and he repeated that sentence:

"Reunited here for the three of us."

In the dim light of the bar, three glasses reflecting different lights collided together, making a crisp sound.

The author has something to say: The sentence in the content introduction is [The moon meets the clouds, the flowers meet the wind, the night sky is beautiful tonight, and I miss you again——Osamu Dazai

The long-awaited episode is here!

Regarding the fact that they saw another world through the book, in order to reunite the three of the rogue faction, then... since the disqualification in the world is fine, the seamlessness is fine, and of course the theory of depravity is also fine!

I originally wanted to update on the day the third season ended, but it missed qaq by a little bit.

But it just so happens that after the exam, the test, the extra chasing, and the extra three things put together, it is three times as happy!

I'm so panicked that I'm going to open a new article tomorrow and haven't saved any manuscripts yet...

It is expected that there will be two slaughters by Wen Ye and two writers, and the next book will be Taken Zai, which is the book that was received in advance in the copywriting.

This book has also come to an end. In fact, there are many dissatisfaction points. I hope the next one can be written better w